﻿@using UCosmic.Www.Mvc.Models
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    var viewBag = (dynamic)ViewData["ViewBag"];
    viewBag.Title = "Alumni Feature Requirements";
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<p>
    Tentatively planned June - October 2012
</p>
<p>
    The University of Cincinnati investigated creating an alumni module in 2006, as
    a candidate for one of the very first modules to be developed. However we discovered
    that alumni data was not very easy to get into UCosmic. Your institution may have
    policies which aim to prevent unauthorized parties from contacting alumni members.
    <strong>Before requesting features for this module, please check with your foundation
        and/or Alumni Association to discover what policies may exist regarding sharing
        of alumni information with you and UCosmic</strong>. Report what you discover
    to the @Html.Partial(MVC.Shared.Views.uservoice_link, new UserVoiceLink(Request, ViewData) { Text = "Feedback & Support forum" }).
</p>
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<h2>
    Basic Alumni User Story
</h2>
<p>
    Nearly 6 years later in 2012, there is a different lens through which to view the
    original problem:
</p>
<div id="feature_a_1" class="user-story-card">
    <h3>
        Find Alumni by Country
    </h3>
    <p>
        <strong>In order to</strong> plan an international strategy,
        <br />
        <strong>As an</strong> international office,
        <br />
        <strong>I want to</strong> discover and connect with my institution's with alumni
        around the world.
    </p>
</div>
<p>
    Six years ago, the only way to get enough reliable information into UCosmic to achieve
    the above goal was from an internal system used for fundraising purposes. Today,
    it is not uncommon for professionals to advertise their education information in
    social apps such as Facebook and LinkedIn. UC's Alumni Association is already leveraging
    the social graph with a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/UCAlumniAssociation" target="_blank">
        Facebook page for UC Alums</a>.
</p>
<p>
    It is possible to use Application Programming Interfaces (API's) from systems like
    Facebook and LinkedIn to help UCosmic connect you with alumni around the world.
    There is also an underlying corollary with the Faculty Pedigree component of the
    Faculty &amp; Staff module. Consider an employee at Lehigh University who graduated
    with a PhD from Edinburgh Napier University. When she enters her faculty pedigree
    information for Lehigh, Edinburgh Napier can now use the same data for its Alumni
    module.
</p>
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<h2>
    Data Feed versus Promotion of Awareness + Incentive to Participate
</h2>
<p>
    It is not possible for UCosmic to &quot;scan&quot; social sites like Facebook and
    LinkedIn for relevant data. People must explicitly allow UCosmic access to their
    information. There is an incentive for doing this in the Faculty Pedigree piece:
    By connecting UCosmic with a Facebook or LinkedIn account, the employee does not
    have to re-enter any data in UCosmic. Whenever they update their profile in the
    3rd party site, those changes can be picked up automatically by UCosmic.
</p>
<p>
    Some Foundations and Alumni Associations may be willing to share enough data with
    UCosmic to avoid the need for integration with popular 3rd party sites. When this
    is the case, the information feeds to UCosmic can be made transparent to the alumni
    themselves. Other international offices may need to promote awareness and provide
    additional incentive for alumni to share their alumni status with UCosmic. <strong>Please
        consider these issues carefully</strong>, and provide your input to UCosmic's
    @Html.Partial(MVC.Shared.Views.uservoice_link, new UserVoiceLink(Request, ViewData) { Text = "Feedback & Support forum" }).
</p>
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